All our wonder unavenged / Don Domanski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Domanski, Don.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

127 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, ON : Brick Books, [2007]

Summary:

In a work of remarkable depth, equally attentive to inner and outer realities, Don Domanski's meditative alertness seamlessly renders the world luminous and flooded with possibilities. Intensely moving, these fluid poems open up our perceptions of what it means to be alive in a sentient universe. Domanski's cosmology grounds us with illuminating metaphors, and insights that make writing a sacred act once more.

Contents:

Drowning Water

Leaning on Silk 13

Our Little Boat Drifting 19

Leviathan 20

Five Thousand Young Deer 24

Slayer in a Told World 25

An Old Animal Habit 27

Fledge 29

Drowning Water 31

Mere 33

Water Strider 34

Untitled with Invisible Ink 35

Twa Corbies 36

The Feather 38

Walking Down to Acheron 39

A History of Sunlight

The Rouged Houses 47

A Hummingbird's Heart Beats 1260 Times A Minute 49

Ochre 50

Three Ribbons 52

Riding the Train in Secret 55

Childhood 59

A History of Sunlight 60

The Star Bellatrix 65

Pearls 66

Disposing of a Broken Clock 67

A Petition to Clouds 68

Scratching the Back of Heaven 70

In the Province of Tharsis 72

A Woman Watching 75

In the Dream of the Yellow Birches

All Our Wonder Unavenged 81

A Lunar Hand Presses Spirit and Flesh 88

Ars Poetica 90

Black Straw 98

Campfire 99

In the Afterforest 100

Poppies 102

Footsteps on Black Water 103

The Silence of Remembered Time 105

A Trace of Finches 110

The Field Sadness 112

In the Dream of the Yellow Birches 114.

ISBN:

1894078586

9781894078580

OCLC:

76800467